Black Sea; biodiversity; macrobenthos; functional traits
Abstract :
[en] Benthic ecological data are crucial to study and manage ecosystems. On the one hand, abiotic and species data provide complementary information to identify habitats. On the other hand, trait data, describing taxon characteristics, are required to predict anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems. Indeed, species traits are now widely used to understand natural selection in communities or to highlight ecosystem functions. While trait data are in growing demand, compiling them is challenging, time-consuming and there are no properly established procedures for major marine ecosystems. Here, we share a data set comprising macrozoobenthic occurrences for 215 taxa over the Black Sea northwestern shelf, between 1995 and 2017, and 27 traits documented for 127 taxa that related to life cycle and ecosystem function. In addition, we provide an abiotic data set of physical and chemical variables generated by a model or compiled from in-situ data. This data set aims to fill the functional knowledge gap in the Black Sea and offers research opportunities to future studies covering ecosystem functions, biodiversity conservation, and management.
Disciplines :
Aquatic sciences & oceanology
Author, co-author :
Chevalier, Séverine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > MAST (Modeling for Aquatic Systems)
Beauchard, Olivier; Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Korringaweg 7, 4401 NT, Yerseke, Netherlands
Teacă, Adrian; Department of Biology and Ecology, National Institute for Research and Development on Marine Geology and Geoecology - GeoEcoMar, 23-25 Dimitrie Onciul Str., 024053, Bucharest, Romania
Begun, Tatiana; Department of Biology and Ecology, National Institute for Research and Development on Marine Geology and Geoecology - GeoEcoMar, 23-25 Dimitrie Onciul Str., 024053, Bucharest, Romania
Todorova, Valentina; Institute of Oceanology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, P.O.Box 152, 9000, Varna, Bulgaria
Vandenbulcke, Luc ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Freshwater and OCeanic science Unit of reSearch (FOCUS)
Soetaert, Karline; Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Korringaweg 7, 4401 NT, Yerseke, Netherlands
Grégoire, Marilaure ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Freshwater and OCeanic science Unit of reSearch (FOCUS)
Language :
English
Title :
A macrozoobenthic data set of the Black Sea northwestern shelf.
This work was supported by the F.R.S-FNRS (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique de Belgique, Communauté Française de Belgique) through funding a FRIA grant to SC. SC and MG acknowledged the support of the EU H2020 BRIDGE-BS project under grant agreement No. 101000240 and EU HE NECCTON project under grant agreement N° 101081273.
The present research benefited from computational resources made available on Lucia, the Tier-1 supercomputer of the Walloon Region, infrastructure funded by the Walloon Region under the grant agreement n°1910247.
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